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Quite honestly, most people cannot be bothered with exercise. Why? Well let's face it, exercise is hard work. It makes you sweat, it ruins your hair, leaves you looking like a panting troll and it takes up lots of time when we are working longer hours than we have ever worked before.
As a result, we are knackered. We don't want to trudge down the gym and jog alongside similarly clad exercisers on treadmills or jump up and down in a field, through the muddy terrain of soggy England after we've finished work. Most of the time we want comfort and lazing. There, that's the truth, right?
Not quite. The truth is everyone needs to do it, whether they like it or not. Especially if you're a bit overweight and struggle to catch your breath walking up the stairs. It's not just one or two people that are in trouble with their weight - obesity is responsible for 9,000 premature deaths a year in the United Kingdom alone, and is a major contributory factor to heart disease. Do you know how to stop the cycle, improve your health and lengthen your life? It's simple really - eat less, move more.
That's enough doom and gloom. Even though you may not believe it or feel this way, exercise can actually be a positive thing - the sweatier and more out of breath the better. Being physical can bolster good mental health; helping you to manage stress and anxiety and in some cases, even depression.
If that's not enough to get you sprinting to the treadmills or running around a field with a personal trainer in then how about this: regular exercise as you age keeps you strong and mobile- so you'll still be dancing around your handbag at the age of eighty instead of getting your poor son/daughter to wheel you round in your wheelchair, or look for assistance in carrying your big fat coffin. None of us are getting younger and the longer it's put off, the harder starting exercise can be.
Believe it or not, exercise can improve your body image before you have even shed a single pound. Making your body do something out of its comfort zone; such as running instead of walking or cycling instead of getting the bus, really can make you feel like you look better. It can also improve posture and heath niggles can also disappear. Running, for example, can prove a cure for back pain - hard to conceive but it's true it really does work. Try one or two miles and stop if you need to but keep at it. If you really need support try a personal trainer too.
Try to get any memories from PE and exercise at school out of your head. There are no frustrated and bored PE teachers looking to make you run several times round a field or chase a mud-soaked ball in this scenario. Being crap art school doesn't mind you'll be rubbish now - and who cares even if you are? Some people find the most challenging element of exercise, the part where you have to face other people and exercise in front of them. Beat this barrier in your head and exercise really will become a normal way of life, a healthier and longer life at that. Tony is researching Personal Trainers Tunbridge Wells at http://www.feelgoodpt.co.uk/
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